· Public charity
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $1,405,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,488,308 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,308 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $355k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS | $1,050,000 |
| Matthew House | $22,667 |
| CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES | $21,667 |
| Good News Partners | $21,667 |
| Housing Forward | $21,663 |
| SOUTHSIDE TOGETHER ORGANIZING | $20,000 |
| Franciscan Outreach | $20,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAI | $20,000 |
| ONE NORTHSIDE | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED | $20,000 |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries | $20,000 |
| Olive Branch Mission | $19,167 |
| Margarets Village | $19,167 |
| INNER VOICE | $18,167 |
| North Side Housing Supportive | $16,667 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HFHOUSING FORWARD9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +206%
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +207%
- CCCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SRSINGLE ROOM HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- HOHouse of the Good Shepherdone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -3%
- TLTHE LYTE COLLECTIVEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
Renaissance Social Services (RSSI) is a unique organization that connects those in need with housing that is safe, quality and affordable. After helping clients attain housing RSSI provides them with comprehensive, flexible, client focused…
To assist societys most disenfranchised; the elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, people living with AIDS and the physically challenged by promoting, fostering and providing the highest quality of housing and services in a…
To disrupt cycles of poverty with dignified transitional housing that hoslistically connects young men to opportunities that create and sustain personal, professional and relational growth.
To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Servicing the poor, homeless, amd mentally disabled
Committed to improving the quality of life for chicago's low-income elderly, housing opportunities and maintenance for the elderly (h.o.m.e.) helps seniors remain independent and part of their community by offering opportunities for…
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Rod's house builds authentic connections with young people, supports them in feeling respected and secure in who they are, empowers them to reach their full potential, and positively connects them to the community. rod's house envisions an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Matthew House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Olive Branch Mission ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds The Inner Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds MARGARETS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds McDermott Center ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
- Who funds Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside ↗
- Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Southside Together Organizing For Power ↗
- Who funds San Jose Obrero Mission ↗
- Who funds YOU CAN MAKE IT ↗
- Who funds SINGLE ROOM HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds House of the Good Shepherd ↗
- Who funds THE LYTE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Greater Chicago Food Depository · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Cuore e Mani Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.